Middlebrow Definition

mĭdl-brou
noun
A person regarded as having conventional, middle-class tastes or opinions, and, often, as being pretentious or pseudo-intellectual.
Webster's New World
adjective
Of or for a middlebrow.
Webster's New World

(pejorative) Neither highbrow or lowbrow, but somewhere in between.

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Other Word Forms of Middlebrow

Noun

Singular:
middlebrow
Plural:
middlebrows

Origin of Middlebrow

  • By analogy with highbrow and lowbrow. The term first appeared in Punch (1925) and later was used by Virginia Wolf (1930's) in an unsent letter to the New Statesman, published as a chapter in the book "The Death of a Moth and Other Essays" (1942).

    From Wiktionary

  • middle (high)brow (low)brow

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

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